Word: lincolnization
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...that is why, in the shadow of the Old State Capitol, where Lincoln once called on a divided house to stand together, where common hopes and common dreams still, I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for President of the United States...
...That's what Abraham Lincoln understood. He had his doubts. He had his defeats. He had his setbacks. But through his will and his words, he moved a nation and helped free a people. It is because of the millions who rallied to his cause that we are no longer divided, North and South, slave and free. It is because men and women of every race, from every walk of life, continued to march for freedom long after Lincoln was laid to rest, that today we have the chance to face the challenges of this millennium together, as one people...
...served as director of women’s studies. When Faust was appointed to lead the Radcliffe Institute, she also received tenure in Harvard’s History Department. Ulrich says that everyone was “totally enthusiastic” to name Faust the Lincoln professor of history, an appropriate title for an expert on the Civil War. Faust’s husband, Charles Rosenberg, the former chair of the Penn History Department who is best known for his work on cholera in 19th century America, also moved to Harvard and is now the Monrad professor of social sciences...
...experience, but experience alone doesn't prove anything about a candidate's ability to serve as President. Consider a former President who, like Obama, hailed from Illinois, lacked a long career in national politics and wasn't favored to win his party's nomination. His name was Abraham Lincoln. Bo Tuerk Golden, Colorado...
...label “black” instead of that other taboo word, they now have the luxury to “behave” as either black or white—surely, no less freedom than what Martin Luther King Jr. intended in his glorious cry atop the Lincoln Memorial...right...